Goal setting for sponsors
Empower your sponsorship journey with MentorKey's Goals feature. This guide explains how to use MentorKey's Goals feature to support your sponsee to set meaningful and impactful goals, helping you to define what they want to achieve from your sponsorship experience.
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What are Goals in MentorKey?
In MentorKey, Goals are where sponsees record their aspirations and objectives for the sponsorship partnership, outlining what they aim to accomplish with their sponsors.
The importance of setting goals
Setting goals in a sponsorship relationship is the foundation for success. Having clear goals ensures that you can focus your time with your sponsee on the areas that will most help them to achieve their aspirations.
Clear goals provide a shared sense of direction and allow you to track and evaluate your sponsee's progress against their goals.
Aspirational vs pillar goals (goal setting framework)
Aspirational Goals
An aspirational goal is a big picture goal that your sponsee would like to achieve during their time with you. It is a vision that they plan to work towards and will be informed by what they value most. Often this goal is qualitative.
Pillar Goals
Pillar goals sit below aspirational goals and consist of more specific areas of focus that if accomplished, will enable your sponsee to achieve their aspirational goal.
Supporting your sponsee to set their goals
As a sponsor, sometimes you may need to support your sponsee to articulate their goal. MentorKey has the Clarifying Your Sponsee's Goal Key to guide you with this.
Finding your sponsee's Goals
Here is where you can find your sponsee's Goals (if they have set them in MentorKey)
Supporting your sponsee to achieve their goals
As a sponsor you have a key role in supporting your sponsee to work towards achieving their sponsorship goal. You can do this in the following ways:
- Ensuring your sponsee has set their goals
- Regularly reviewing their goals to ensure they remain relevant
- Focussing your sessions together on the areas which will most help them to achieve their goals
Setting your sponsee actions to take between your sessions.